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Animals were cut open to talk with divine forces, and see into the future. Usually the liver and intestines were used.
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After Caesar was assassinated, the physician had decided that only one, out of the 23 stab wounds, was fatal.
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The first FORENSIC autopsies are preformed at University of Bologna.
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The first text-book on forensic science and other procedures for suspicious deaths to be followed in those case was published in China.
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The Catholic church decided that Autopsies were not terrible and ungodly!
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The peak of Autopsies were in this era because of Karl Rokitansky, Rudolf Virchow, Richard Clarke Cabot, and many others.
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Scientists studied the ways bodies decomposed after death through dissections, and gained a better understanding of how the body changed based on the effects of time, environment, and manner of death.
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Valentin Ross discovered a method of detecting Arsenic in the stomach of victims of poisoning.
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James Marsh used chemical testing to determine cause of death in a murder trial.
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Henry Faulds and William James Herschel publish a paper describing the uniqueness of fingerprints. Francis Galton, a scientist, adapted their findings for the court. Galton's system identified patterns.
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The Coroners Act ensured that a coroners job was "determine the circumstances and the medical causes of sudden, violent and unnatural deaths."
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An investigator, Juan Vucetich, was the first to use fingerprinting to prove a convicted murderer.
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During the WWII era, autopsy rates rose because many hospitals and medical schools made autopsies a standard.
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Gunshot residue can now be detected through SEM/EDS testing.
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These are combination of tomography, CT, MR imaging, image guided biopsies, post-mortem angiography, and other software that makes using it in court easier, and there is no desicration of Jewish and Muslim bodies, who are still against autopsies to this day.
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